All evidence points to CERO. They won’t throw CERO under the bus by saying it outright, but it’s pretty clear.
The Switch 2 version of Dispatch is a universal binary for all regions, meaning it has to comply with all regions’ guidelines. The JP PS5 version that just launched has the same censorship, the only difference is that PS5 has a separate international version.
And we know that separate versions is an option on Switch 2, Cyberpunk 2077 has a censored JP version, but for whatever reason AdHoc chose to have one universal version here.
Ultimately I think it just reflects very poorly on AdHoc that none of this was disclosed prior to release, allowing this shitstorm of finger-pointing to happen.
AdHoc absolutely deserves the beating they’re taking. Even if they had no way to prevent the censorship they should’ve announced this a long time ago.
All evidence points to CERO.
Talking point: Nintendo Bad
Nintendo requires all games on its platforms to receive ratings from independent organizations and to meet our established content and platform guidelines. While we inform partners when their titles don’t meet our guidelines, Nintendo does not make changes to partner content. We also do not discuss specific content or the criteria used in making these determinations.
For anyone wanting a TL;DR.
It sounds like it was forced into a censored version by Nintendo’s standards. The article goes into more detail on it, but it sounds like the requirements for it to be playable in Japan are a part of the puzzle.
I have it on PC and can safely say it’s the definitive way to experience this game. Shame it’s censored on the Switch.
I doubt that is the case, as there are other games with comparable content that are published on Nintendo’s store.
This is basically just a non-answer that doesn’t say much of anything at all. It could just as easily be one of the ratings organizations to blame, based on that statement, which seems likelier for the reasons others have mentioned.
Nintendo has a weird thing with censorship. I just went to their Eshop site and typed in “sexy”. I don’t feel I can post the results here. I landed 13 hits, with many having “Hentai” in the title. Some of those results have popped up when my child is looking for games to buy, so they’re not even age restricted. So we get this case where games that are crafted with a care to quality get censored, but people can upload hentai to the shop with no real trouble. It doesn’t make sense.
AFAIK none of those games actually do have explicit content in them, they’re just named that way in the hopes of tricking suckers into buying them.
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